THE DEAL

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PROFILE of Staff Sergeant Maynard Smith, aerial gunner of a Flying Fortress, the only man in the European Theater who has received the Congressional Medal of Honor, Americas highest military award, while alive, and one of the two men in that theatre who have received it at all. As a holder of the Mdeal, Smith is receiving two dollars a month extra pay. He was awarded the medal forextinguishing a fire in the radio room of a Flying Fortress. For an hour & a half he fought fires which the pilot of the ship thought were fatal. In between times he had administered first aid to one member of the crew and assisted one other member to escape, and he had twice fought off attacking Focke-Wulfs. All this he did alone and on his first mission.